Source：China Coal News

“We just want to see at night.，What is the operation status of the mine driverless system?。”

Last October，In a mining area of the State Power Investment Corporation.，The leader of the mine deliberately chose to go to the duty room responsible for cloud dispatching at night to find out.，See if the mine driverless solution can operate well.。

On this occasion“Night attack”Medium，The operation effect of unmanned driving in the mining area has given the mining side enough confidence.。As a provider of mine driverless solutions，Easy Control Intelligent Driving has successively provided mine driverless solutions for five mining areas under the State Power Investment Group.。

In recent years，With the rapid development of technology,，The landing of unmanned vehicles in some mining areas is accelerating.。

Scene of night operation of driverless motorcade in mine with easy control and intelligent driving

 

In the eyes of many outsiders，The environment of the mining area is relatively independent and closed.，So driverless seems easier to run.，But this is not the case。On the one hand，Mining area congenitally has dynamic change of driving area、The road is uneven、A dusty natural environment，It also has higher requirements for safety.。On the other hand，Mine driverless is a production tool.，Improving production efficiency is a core demand for its existence.，Unmanned driving must achieve this goal.。Only by solving the problem of safety、Two major pain points of efficiency，Mine driverless can be truly realized.“Reproducible”And“It can be popularized”，Realize from“1”To“1000”The transmutation of。

 

 

The Matthew effect is emerging.

 

In the driverless industry，The strong are always strong“Matthew effect”May be more obvious than other industries。Because better products get more customers.，More customers, more data，More data to optimize better products。One step slow.，It may be slow step by step.。

 

So，In order to gain the first-mover advantage, some mine driverless enterprises，Used to race quickly in a short time.，Mass ore feeding。In 2019.，Enterprises have been stationed in more than 30 mining areas to carry out driverless operations.。

 

But at the time，The mine driverless system is not yet stable.，Many mining areas are also holding a try.“Validate attitude”，Deploy several unmanned mining cards in the mining area.“To see the aftereffect”。That's why，Unmanned mining card in single mine is difficult to form scale.，The closed loop of data“I can't run”。Other companies，The other way is chosen——“Slow and steady”，For example, easy to control intelligent driving.。For a considerable period of time after the establishment of the company，Mine driverless business with only 1 to 2 benchmark mines，Focus on R & D efforts，Gradually form scale effect。

 

“In the mining area，Our R & D personnel are rooted in the scene.，The scenario is realized、Hardware、Software、Get through the whole process of algorithm technology，Made it safe、Efficient、Stable driverless operating system。”In the view of Huijie, the product director of Easy Control Intelligent Driving，Now a prerequisite for the rapid delivery of driverless projects and stable operation in a short time is，The R & D team is stationed in the mining area to make the unmanned driving more suitable for the on-site production process.。

 

Normal operation of new energy driverless mining card

 

Under the strategy of intensive cultivation of single mine，2023，Easy to control intelligent driving has realized more than 200 unmanned mine cards in a single mine.，The world's largest single-mine fleet，In the domestic super-large open-pit coal mines to undertake 60.%The capacity of，Achieved 7×24-hour normal unmanned operation，Moreover, the highest efficiency of a single vehicle can reach 110% of manual driving.%。At the same time，In the process of formulating safety standards and specifications for unmanned driving，The mining area will also give priority to the safety standards provided by easy-to-control intelligent driving.，Carry out generalized release。

 

“Customers begin to take mine driverless seriously，Think of it as productivity.，Not a forward looking R & D project。”This year，Lin Qiao, Vice President of Easy Control Intelligent Driving Strategy, clearly felt the change of attitude of mining customers towards driverless driving.。

 

In the vision of Gao Yongsheng, director of Shitoumei No.1 Open-pit Coal Mine, Santanghu Company, Xinjiang Energy Group，The whole mine will gradually realize unmanned transportation of coal mining operations.，Mining and transportation equipped with driverless equipment，Realize low-carbon green mining of the whole mine。At present，The mine has more than 50 easy-control intelligent driving unmanned hybrid mine cards put into use.。

 

So far，The driverless solution of easy control and intelligent driving has entered 19 mining areas in China.，Already with the National Energy Group、TBEA、State Power Investment Group、Zijin Mining、Xinjiang Energy、Xinjiang Yihua and other large mining enterprises carry out cooperation，Today, the number of driverless mining vehicles in normal operation has exceeded 700.。

 

Orderly unloading of driverless coal mining car at crushing station

 

For the self-driving industry，The larger the fleet.，The more data you collect，The more advantageous to the iteration of the algorithm.。Nowadays，Easy to control intelligent driving has now entered such a positive cycle.。As the market share of driverless mining card ranks first in China.，Repurchase of customers in the industry is also rising.，It belongs to the easy-to-control intelligent driving.“Matthew effect”Is taking shape。

 

 

“Really solve customer pain points”

 

The beginning of the year，At a seminar on driverless mines.，Easy to control intelligent driving has been recognized by many experts and business leaders.。“The reason why there is such a voice，It is because we have made a project into a project.。”Lin Qiao, Vice President of Easy Control Intelligent Driving Strategy, said.，“A state-owned enterprise leader said when he saw our driverless project.，Are you doing research and development on the dump?。This makes the technology of easy-to-control intelligent driving more adaptable to the mining area.，Really solve customer pain points”。

 

Xinjiang Yihua Mining Wucaiwan No.1 Open-pit Coal Mine has used the driverless mine card.。In the view of mine manager Wang Jian，In the mining area 7×Unmanned mining card with 24-hour normal operation，The use of 100-ton extended-range vehicles conforms to the development direction of large-scale and new energy vehicles in mining areas.，Taking into account the safety in production and energy efficiency.。

 

Driven by nearly 3 million times of driverless operation experience，Perception of Easy Control and Intelligent Driving、Control、The capabilities of decision planning algorithms are also being optimized。For example, the waiting strategy of the unmanned mine card in the loading area，Adopt“Anthropomorphism”Way，Excavator waits for only tens of seconds，You can continue loading.，Same as traditional manual operation。And many operators have unmanned mining cards.，It will stop far away from the excavator.，O as to avoid interference with the track of the vehicle in front.。Switch from the standby position to the loading position，Takes a minute and a half to two minutes.，In this way, the efficiency of loading the excavator is reduced。

 

Mine driverless fleet runs steadily all the year round.

 

“Now，The product team still spends half the time in the company and the other half in the mining area to understand the real needs.。”Huijie said。

 

It is on this basis.，Easy Control Intelligent Driving has developed a driverless transportation solution for open-pit mines.「Hit the mountain」。「Hit the mountain」At the beginning of the design, the issue of replicability was fully considered.，Platform architecture is adopted，The largest proportion of standardization and modularization is achieved。For different mines、Minerals and regions have very strong adaptability.，“If you really meet a special need.，Only minor modular customization is needed to handle it.，It is similar to installing a plug-in on the system.。”Lin Qiao said。

 

At present，「Hit the mountain」The program can be deployed to a new mine in about a week.，And the operation efficiency can even exceed that of manual driving.。“A mine with the shortest time，It even took only three days.。”「Hit the mountain」The overall operational efficiency of unmanned driving in the mining area has been raised to a new height.，It will take 60 days to achieve safe operation in the new mining area from the beginning of 2023.，Now it is stable to realize unmanned operation within 7 days.。“Easily controlled efficiency”After a year and a half of improvement and exploration,，Rapid deployment、The ability of standardized management is also steadily improving.。

 

Outside the product team，The operation and maintenance team stationed in the mining area can solve the on-site problems of mine customers at the first time.，Ensure the operation of the whole mine driverless solution。Maximum scheduling resource support，Solve customer pain point，Meet the needs of the customer，This is also the key to quickly break through the tight encirclement of easy-to-control intelligent driving in the driverless industry.。

 

Huang Haike, general manager of Xinjiang Mingyang Group, recognized the cooperation with Easy Control Intelligent Driving.：“From July 2023 to the present，We have established a deep partnership.，Jointly build the world's largest single-mine driverless fleet，At present, the overall operation of unmanned driving is very stable.。”From the development trend，“We are willing to support unmanned driving.，First, it realizes the intrinsic safety of production.，The second is to reduce management costs.”。

 

“Now we choose to continue to increase R & D investment.，The proportion of R & D personnel remained at 85 percent%Above。This is also the key for us to stand out this year.。”Lin Qiao said，It is expected to reach December this year.，The total size of the easy-to-control intelligent driving fleet is expected to exceed 1000 units.，At that time, it will become the largest mine driverless company in operation in the world.。